Join Our Online Writing Community
Writing is a courageous act. You’re creating something where nothing existed before. Maybe at times you doubt yourself, like most creative people do. Can I do this? Will it turn out the way I want it to?
In our online writers’ community, you’ll find comrades when you’re lonely, and cheerleaders when you doubt yourself.
Receiving appreciation for your writing is more than just a pleasure. It gives you energy and confidence to let your imagination off the leash. And when you enter the darker realms, it’s a relief and a release to know that others relate to what you’ve been through and appreciate your bravery and honesty in writing about it.
Writing Prompt of the Week
Our Online Writing Group
Due to popular demand, we’re expanding to two Prompt of the Week sessions! Please join us any Thursday, starting February 1, 2024.
We meet on Zoom to write to a random prompt for 10 minutes. Usually it’s an image. We all generate a list of words inspired by the prompt, then offer one item from our lists to create a community list. The nice thing about a community list is that we can all be inspired by one another’s imagination and we don’t just have to rely on our own!
We write for 10 minutes, using both words lists as much or as little as we like, and then break out into Zoom rooms to read what we wrote aloud. We close out our time together with a short Q & A session.
We meet at 3 pm PT / 6 PM ET for an hour. We look forward to writing with you.
On YouTube
Every week we create a YouTube Prompt of the Week video: we give you the prompt, time you while you create your list of words, share the community list, then time you again while you write for 10 minutes.
You’ll find over 100 videos in this growing archive. We promise these prompts will surprise and inspire you. Plus, we’re always adding to our video library of writing tips explaining the Imaginative Storm method, discussing memoir and other genres, and more!
The Imaginative Storm on Circle
Read what others have written to our prompts, and share what you write
The Imaginative Storm on Circle is where we publish what we write to the weekly prompts, daily prompts, and prompts from our book and course Write What You Don’t Know.
In our writing community, we value surprise and exploration. Since the material posted on the Circle is raw and unedited, we offer appreciation in the comments, never criticism. When you’re first putting words on the page, all that matters is what pops—and you know it when you read it!
Click the button below and poke around. You’ll read some extraordinary writing—generated in just 10 minutes!
Daily Writing Prompt
On the first day of every month, we post a card of the entire month’s prompts here. Click on the card to download it. Print it out and pin it above your desk, or keep it hidden so that each day’s prompt is a surprise.
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